A SCOTTISH concert venue has become the first arena in the world to be recognised for its efforts to become more sustainable. Source

MICROSOFT has had a new tartan listed in Scotland’s official registry to celebrate 20 years of its Xbox console in the country. Source

  Boris Johnson’s oven-ready Brexit deal is a dog’s dinner. In a sign of desperation, the UK Government has delayed import controls  for a fourth time. The President of Scotland’s farming union criticised the move yesterday as “total madness”.  Sometimes countries impose import controls to protect their own producers. There is probably no other country […] Source

A SHOP in Fort William is slated to be the first Scottish outdoor sports retailer for women and owned by a woman when it opens in the UK’s “outdoor capital” Source

BUSINESS confidence in Scotland has risen 11 points in April to 28%, despite increasing inflation and costs, according to a new report. Source

LLOYDS Banking Group flagged early signs that customers are tightening their belts in the face of the cost-of-living crisis as it cut its outlook for the UK economy and posted lower profits. Source

MORE than $125 billion (£99bn) was wiped off the stock market value of electric car giant Tesla overnight amid concerns that boss Elon Musk may have to sell down his stake to fund his takeover of Twitter. Source

  Boris Johnson’s newest catchphrase is “a Deal by Diwali” referring to his search for a free trade agreement with India before Diwali the five-day festival in October celebrating the victory of light over darkness, which is celebrated by Hindus around the world. Let’s hope it leads to a more successful outcome to his last […] Source

A P&O ferry travelling between Cairnryan and Larne is adrift off the Co Antrim coast. Source

NOT even the Greens are advocating that all of Scotland’s oil and gas wells be immediately plugged and abandoned, although some more devious politicians continue to misrepresent this situation. Where there is debate over the UK’s future energy policies around the development of oil and gas resources – policies currently dictated in Scotland by Westminster – this debate is characterised by questions such as “how much” and “for how long”? Source

IT is hard to imagine any serious individual claim that an independent Scotland would face hyperinflation, despite what the former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne said back in 2014. Source